I have a 4 year old maine coone rescue kitty that I've raised since 4 weeks old and I was interested to know if anybody else has an opinion on royal canin's dry food. I've been feeding her RC since she got off of the kitten's milk and no food I've tried to replace it with has worked out to say the least. She's started on the small kitten kibble and then switched to the maine coone variety which has kibble that is just as large as my 50lb beagle mixe's wellness kibble...very out of the norm for dry cat food varieties that are out there but it slows down her eating so that she chews and doesn't swallow it whole as she's done with other foods (i.e. royal canine indoor dry and blue buffalo dry).
She gets 1/2 cup per day and usually there are 15 or so kibbles in her bowl by the next day's feeding so she conserves her food very well as the chewing of the larger kibble really slows her down. About a year ago I tried switching her to 2 different dry foods: Royal canin indoor dry and blue buffalo indoor dry. Both had terrible results. I opted for the RC indoor dry quite simply because I could buy a bulk quantity (15lbs I think...) as opposed to constantly shelling out $26 for a 7lb bag of the specialty RC maine coone variety. Bad choice! My kitty was fed the same amount, 1/2 cup, and she would eat her entire days food in 1 feeding and then whine the entire day and night for more. She finally worked her way up to an entire cup per day at which point I promptly returned the remainder to petsmart for an exchange to her normal maine coone food.
As far as the blue buffalo brand; my kitty turned into a holy terror on that crap. Her behavior became extremely erratic and abnormal to where she was running back and forth through the house with wild eyes and clawing at everything...very unusual for my calm kitty. She also binge ate the food in the same way she did with the normal RC indoor dry as they both have very small kibble so she doesn't even chew it.
I know there are a couple of undesirables in RC's Maine coone mix such as corn gluten and other grains but I simply cannot find anything else on the market that my kitty responds to like the rc mc brand. Her stools are solid and regular as well as her eating habits...the only time she binge eats now is when I give her some chunk light tuna and she licks the entire plate clean!
Has anybody else had experience with rc's brand of food or suggestions for alternatives with large kibble?
She gets 1/2 cup per day and usually there are 15 or so kibbles in her bowl by the next day's feeding so she conserves her food very well as the chewing of the larger kibble really slows her down. About a year ago I tried switching her to 2 different dry foods: Royal canin indoor dry and blue buffalo indoor dry. Both had terrible results. I opted for the RC indoor dry quite simply because I could buy a bulk quantity (15lbs I think...) as opposed to constantly shelling out $26 for a 7lb bag of the specialty RC maine coone variety. Bad choice! My kitty was fed the same amount, 1/2 cup, and she would eat her entire days food in 1 feeding and then whine the entire day and night for more. She finally worked her way up to an entire cup per day at which point I promptly returned the remainder to petsmart for an exchange to her normal maine coone food.
As far as the blue buffalo brand; my kitty turned into a holy terror on that crap. Her behavior became extremely erratic and abnormal to where she was running back and forth through the house with wild eyes and clawing at everything...very unusual for my calm kitty. She also binge ate the food in the same way she did with the normal RC indoor dry as they both have very small kibble so she doesn't even chew it.
I know there are a couple of undesirables in RC's Maine coone mix such as corn gluten and other grains but I simply cannot find anything else on the market that my kitty responds to like the rc mc brand. Her stools are solid and regular as well as her eating habits...the only time she binge eats now is when I give her some chunk light tuna and she licks the entire plate clean!
Has anybody else had experience with rc's brand of food or suggestions for alternatives with large kibble?